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  1. Sage Forum
    I have a Sage Barista Express, the machine arrived with the top burr setting (Housed under the bean hopper), set at 6. I have just received some fresh roasted beans which were roasted yesterday (13th May 29020). I will leave them a week before trying to make coffee from them. I will use the...
  2. Sage Forum
    Thank you Cuprajake, I will try it out, we have a coffee roaster here in Norwich, I'll pick one from them. Maybe I'm naive but I find fresh roasted coffee expensive?
  3. Sage Forum
    Coco Loco, thank you so much for your information and guidance. I have taken aboard all the comments which people have given me today and implemented them, as a result of this I have altered the bure grinder setting to 4 and it's sorted me out. The pressure gauge is at 12 o'clock when water is...
  4. Sage Forum
    Thanks Rob, I'm probably making myself look silly here to you guys, yes it does have a "Expresso Range" dial on the front of the machine, Its a Sage Espresso Barista model. I understand what you mean about weighing the expresso by weight not volume, I have been using a shoot glass, indicating a...
  5. Sage Forum
    Just thought another thing, what is the pressure gauge there to measure, if not the extraction? Hope I'm not being a pain, just keen to learn.
  6. Sage Forum
    At present I'm waiting for the delivery of some more fresh beans, should be here tomorrow, guess it would be best to wait till the beans are perhaps 5 days old or so before I start to make coffee from them? Will weight the grounded beans as they fall into the porta filter to ensure accurate...
  7. Sage Forum
    Hi there, I'm weighing the beans, 18g, then putting in the machines hopper, then grinding them to the finest (No: - 1), extracting in the porta filter to give me 60ml of coffee, takes about 24 seconds. The pressure gauge on the Sage Barista say its under extracting in that the dial doesn't...
  8. Sage Forum
    Thank you Adam, I will try this, thanks for your reply.
  9. Sage Forum
    Hi there, I am having problems with under extracted coffee! I bought fresh beans, Guatemala and have wasted some in that i have ground the beans from 8 (Range of grinder 1 - 15) to the finest the Barista Express will go down to (1), unfortunately the dial on the machine showing pressure does...
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